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Robert Farrar writes about his grandfather Kenneth Horne, the West End playwright of the 30s, 40s and 50s
 
 
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A list of Robert Farrar's plays, both produced and unproduced.
 
 
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WILD FRUIT
Wild Fruit, a new comedy by Robert Farrar, directed by Phil Setren, was Psychodrome's last production, in June 2006
 
 
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Robert Farrar writes about writing Wild Fruit; memories of Waterloo Street
 
 
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Vow of theatrical chastity
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Playography

This is a list of my plays. Any inquiries about producing them should be addressed to my agent Michelle Kass at 85 Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H OAA.

Complex

Comedy-drama. 30 minutes. One female, twenties, one male, late forties. Three scenes. Produced at Oval House Theatre 2004/5 as part of Lovers From Hell. A disturbed young woman seduces an older man for the most twisted of reasons.

Todd Boyce and Mari-Claire Turley in Robert Farrar's play Complex

Get The Guest

Comedy. 25 minutes. Four scenes. Two male, thirties to fifties. Produced at Oval House Theatre 2004/5 as part of Lovers From Hell. The proprietor of a seaside B&B seduces a shy guest, then humiliates him the following morning.

James Holmes and Nick Malinowski in Get The Guest

Donut

Comedy. 10 minutes. Four scenes. One male twenties/thirties. One male, older. Produced at Oval House Theatre 2004/5 as part of Lovers From Hell. A relaxed bon viveur persuades his neurotic boyfriend to eat a donut in the course of a sex session. I have also written a half-hour version.

todd Boyce and Daniel Higley in Donut by Robert Farrar

Wild Fruit

Comedy drama. Two acts. 100 minutes. Five male: one twenties, two thirties, one forties, one fifties. Produced at Oval House 2006. Two frustrated Brighton slackers invite a glamorous London couple back to their flat for sex, with the resulting collapse of both relationships.

Jonathan Hooley and Alberto Lvpo in Wild Fruit

Love Resurrection

Drama. 40 minutes. One scene. One male, twenties. One female, twenties. Unproduced. A young woman’s confession of an unsavoury sexual secret cures her boyfriend’s impotence but destroys the relationship.

Kindness of Strangers

Gothic comedy. 35 minutes. One scene. One male, elderly. One female, elderly. One male, 30-40. Unproduced. A stranded motorist is taken in by an eccentric old couple whose solicitous kindness has a dark side.

Planet of Women

Comedy. 25 minutes. One scene. One male, two female, all about 25-40. A young woman tells her date a preposterous tale in order to get her hands on his sperm.

Relax

Comedy. 100 minutes. Two acts. Four male - two thirties, one forties, one fifties - and one female, twenties. A sexually repressed B&B proprietor seduces his guest and then constructs elaborate fictions to deny it in the morning. The arrival of a new houseboy (another fantasist), a sexually curious mechanic and a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown leads to complications and a change in the status quo.

James Holmes and Mark Leeson in Relax

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